All Sports Trophy - 2012-13

[jocoshock]

This alone should eliminate Kansas State from ever winning the award. EVER.

http://http://www.google.com/imgres?...9QEwBw&dur=453

Your link appears to be broken... or is it their link, which is your point to begin with..?

[jdmee]

Your link appears to be broken...

[WuDrWu]

My bad....thanks to @jdmee: for properly displaying what I clearly failed at attempting. Thank goodness I'm not in charge of marketing.

[1972Shocker]

When you think about the year the Shocks had this year they really were not very far off from putting a Sub-2.00 average finish number on the board for the All-Sports Trophy.

[SHOCKvalue]

The interesting story on the EcoCat fiasco for K-State is that the girl behind the concept and actually in the photo is a Beaker grad. All kinds of irony there.

[WuDrWu]

Is this an award that is regional by chance? I'm just curious that's all. Seems odd that no large market or blue blood is included in the finals.

[xazshox]

Soccer

I spoke to ADES about adding soccer at least 2 yrs ago. The 1st problem he brought up is that the NCAA requires a full sized soccer field for that sport, and that means it has to be 120 yards long & 70 yards wide if I recall correctly. That rules out Cessna stadium because of the track pole vault running track along side the football field, etc.

I have a lengthy background in soccer from when my son was growing up in AZ. He became an All-AZ level player while I was his head coach in the Tempe SC back in the 80's. As such, I grew to really like the sport & I believe it is continu-ing to grow in popularity. My son now lives in MO & his daughter plays for a club team out of Columbia, MO. They participate in a league in Overland Park, KS, which has one of the very top soccer complexes in the U.S. Someone mentioned earlier that soccer is popular in KS. Johnson County, KS, has the 2nd highest rate of youth soccer partici-pation in the U.S. There are something on the order of 10,000 kids playing soccer there. The soccer complex there draws approx. $25 M in taxes into the area derived from restaurant & motel dollars spent by soccer families. Soccer is played at that complex year round. So, yes, I do believe that WSU would do well to add soccer as a sport someday!

[Kung Wu]

I spoke to ADES about adding soccer at least 2 yrs ago. The 1st problem he brought up is that the NCAA requires a full sized soccer field for that sport, and that means it has to be 120 yards long & 70 yards wide if I recall correctly. That rules out Cessna stadium because of the track pole vault running track along side the football field, etc.

I have a lengthy background in soccer from when my son was growing up in AZ. He became an All-AZ level player while I was his head coach in the Tempe SC back in the 80's. As such, I grew to really like the sport & I believe it is continu-ing to grow in popularity. My son now lives in MO & his daughter plays for a club team out of Columbia, MO. They participate in a league in Overland Park, KS, which has one of the very top soccer complexes in the U.S. Someone mentioned earlier that soccer is popular in KS. Johnson County, KS, has the 2nd highest rate of youth soccer partici-pation in the U.S. There are something on the order of 10,000 kids playing soccer there. The soccer complex there draws approx. $25 M in taxes into the area derived from restaurant & motel dollars spent by soccer families. Soccer is played at that complex year round. So, yes, I do believe that WSU would do well to add soccer as a sport someday!

They have a full size field at Metroplex. And bleachers are cheap, but you don't even need bleachers. Back in the 90's Drake was a very good soccer school and didn't even have any. Probably do by now, I dunno.

[jpshocker]

They have a full size field at Metroplex. And bleachers are cheap, but you don't even need bleachers. Back in the 90's Drake was a very good soccer school and didn't even have any. Probably do by now, I dunno.

That was my thought too. All you really need is enough real estate for a field to start out with. Bleachers aren't critical but I think these are all things that could easily be paid for. I'll bet there are enough boosters that are soccer fans that many of the initial items needed to get the program off the ground could be paid for by donations.

[Rlh04d]

That was my thought too. All you really need is enough real estate for a field to start out with. Bleachers aren't critical but I think these are all things that could easily be paid for. I'll bet there are enough boosters that are soccer fans that many of the initial items needed to get the program off the ground could be paid for by donations.

Can you fund a college soccer program on Kickstarter? ;)

[The Mad Hatter]

Club soccer has evidently used Stryker Soccer Complex to host tournaments, so that might also be on the table.

http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=KMSOCCERL&p=/tournament_m/

[jpshocker]

Club soccer has evidently used Stryker Soccer Complex to host tournaments, so that might also be on the table.

http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=KMSOCCERL&p=/tournament_m/

As long as scheduling conflicts didn't become a major issue this seems like a solid option as well. While it would be nice to have a field on, or close to, campus it wouldn't be a necessity. In fact, long term the university could look for a piece of land off campus to develop into a place to play. Once again, there would be obvious costs involved but soccer is a great fit for our area and would probably garner more support than any other new sport other than maybe football, which we all know the financial implications of.

[RoyalShock]

Or, you go ahead and build a soccer field at 21st and Oliver in such a way that a football stadium could be built around it, should that day ever come.

[DwShock]

Forget soccer let's add curling and rowing.

[Cdizzle]

Forget soccer let's add curling and rowing.

I'm not going to lie, I would definitely attend WSU curling matches.